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A gorgeous woman, pregnant with her lover’s child, asks a doctor of a dispensary lost in a jungle to get her an abortion in exchange for a large sum. The doctor refuses, but then, fascinated by the woman’s strange beauty, proposes to her a night of love as price of the operation.

Mr Shastri, a retired Sanskrit professor suffering from Alzheimer’s, goes missing after escaping from his daughter’s car. Fascinated by an elephant walking on the street, he follows a path incomprehensible to people around him and creates a divine bond to the elephant while the rest of the world disappears for him.

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Chidiya Udh revolves around a young boy from a chicken farm and a maid at a luxury hotel who must give each other strength to escape from their dismal reality while nameless chickens continue to feed the city slaughterhouses.

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A sewerage worker's dead body is found inside a manhole in Mumbai. An ageing folk singer is tried in court on charges of abetment of suicide. He is accused of performing an inflammatory song which might have incited the worker to commit the act.

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Sunny, a failed Bollywood actor, escorts an American film team in a remote desert when terrorists capture him by mistake. The house where he is being kept as a hostage belongs to a Pakistani man crazy about Bollywood pirated DVDs.

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In Bundelkhand, India, a revolution is in the making among the poorest of the poor, as Sampat Pal and the fiery women of her Gulabi Gang empower themselves and take up the fight against gender violence, caste oppression and widespread corruption.

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A young man returns home to Kashmir on receiving news of his father’s disappearance. Not only does he learn that security forces have detained his father, but that his mother is in a relationship with his very own uncle. After his father’s death, Haider chooses to follow the path of revenge. The film is freely inspired by Shakespeare’s Hamlet.

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Small town entrepreneur Maniram makes a major profit by cheating people and selling them tainted food. His business is run by his daughter-in-law Tejo, who is married to Maniram’s mentally challenged younger son. When Maniram’s elder son comes back into town to get married, things start to go awry. Based on ‘In the Ravine’ by Anton Chekhov.

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In 1984, Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated by her two Sikh bodyguards, causing anti-Sikh riots to erupt throughout the country. A teacher traveling back from a field trip with her class of 10-year-old students struggles to protect Kush, the only Sikh student in the class, from the growing violence around him.

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Kamala, a young woman from Chitkul village, embarks on a journey with her child Manya, leaving her native land in search for her missing husband. Along this journey she encounters Nawazudin, a free-spirited army deserter who helps them to get to their destination. But what is his own motive?

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While the world thinks of Gandhi as the sainted man in khadi loincloth leaning on a cane, there is another Gandhi - a painfully shy young man struggling to formulate his ideas, the man before he became the Mahatma. This is the Mohandas K. Gandhi documented in The Making of the Mahatma.

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Hundreds and thousands of Indian men and women – indigenous inhabitants and landless farmers – demand their right to existence by making a 400 kilometre protest march from Gwalior to Delhi. How can one fight for one’s rights without using violence ?

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Year after year, for an endless eight months, a family moves to a desert in Gujarat to extract salt from the burning earth. Every monsoon the salt fields are washed away, as the desert turns into sea. And still they return....

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A 28-year-old electrician living in Kanpur is renowned for his prowess in stealing electricity. He is a robin-hood figure, stealing electricity and charging the rich to provide free connections in impoverished neighborhoods.

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Q portraits a woman living in Mumbai, India, and a six year old girl from nowhere. The girl has a code name 'doll'. Their lives had no contact point till getting implicated in an unstoppable mission. Woman, perfectly aware, girl, perfectly unaware…

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Salma, a young Muslim from South India, is forced into marriage by her family at the age of 13 and forbidden to study. After her wedding, and during two decades, her husband insists she stay indoors, and words are her only salvation. She became, against all odds, one of the most famous Tamil poets.

The true story of Gaur Hari Das, who fought the British government during his teenage years. After the Independence, he finds himself dubbed a fraud, and sets out to prove that the years he spent fighting for a free nation were not a figment of his imagination.

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True Love Story is a journey through the seductive, treacherous streets of Bombay. In a city soaked in Bollywood dreams, it moves from the fantastical to the viscerally real. True Love Story is a painted ode to romance.

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In the valley of Kashmir, the city of Srinagar convulses with riots and curfews. A young man tries to escape with his closest friend, when he meets a young environmentalist in an abandoned houseboat. Trapped together in his floating village, their blossoming romance threatens to derail his dreams.

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Subhadra, a young educated woman from an upper caste family, lives alone in a world made of dreams and poetry. She falls in love with Kunhikuttan, a great kathakali artist. In truth, it is Arjuna, the Bhagavad-Gita hero played by Kunhikuttan on stage, than she is madly in love with.